1. Gram. = INDECLINABLE a. 3.
1530. Palsgr., 77. Any other of the partes that be undeclynable.
1775. Ash, Undeclinable..., not admitting a change of termination.
2. Unswerving; = INDECLINABLE a. 1.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, XXII. xxx. 919. An vndeclinable and sted-fast delight of not sinning.
3. Unavoidable; = INDECLINABLE a. 2.
1652. Charleton, Darkn. Atheism Dispelled, 242. The malignant impressions of the Stars, epidemick contagions, or other undeclinable Accidents.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. (1693), 107. I have shewn how blameless the Lord Keeper was, and that the Offence on his Part was undeclinable.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnotheo, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 90. At ev’ry Sense … Shall Horrors undeclinable rush in.
4. That cannot be refused.
1641. Sir E. Dering, Carmelite, 20. I offer you a fair tryall, and Iudges undeclinable.
Hence Undeclinably adv., † unswervingly.
1662. Stillingfl., Orig. Sacræ, III. iii. § 15. Speaking of those souls which are undeclinably good.
